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Please improve my credit, my job, my wife. ROBERT LUND (Singer): (Singing) Save, Obama. (Soundbite of parody song, "Save Me, Obama") And it kind of points out - in those days, just as he was about to begin his term, we all kind of expected him to be able to walk on water, and this song kind of plays on that. This came out shortly after Barack Obama was elected. INSKEEP: You've also brought along a song about President Obama. Oh, black water, keeps on rolling, up the Mississippi soon, got to keep on lying, BP. Executive goons, we're nickel and diming, BP. Fill the Gulf soon, but we'll keep refining, BP. STEVE GOODIE (Singer): (Singing) Oh, black water, keeps on flowing. (Soundbite of parody song, "Black Water") As a matter of fact, one of them is about the oil in the Gulf of Mexico, "Black Water" by Steve Goodie. INSKEEP: So you've brought along some songs that you have been listening to now that you think reflect on the news. Demento Show" is for all the exceptions of the world, and that is why I think Internet radio is a good fit for us, because they can find us anywhere. Demento Show," for some reason, has not tested too well in focus groups among this particular demographic. Now, for instance, stations that call themselves top 40 usually play a particular style of music mainly aimed at women 18 to 30, and "The Dr. Tastes change, but mostly the radio industry has changed. INSKEEP: Now, we're talking to you now because, of course, the program has finally gone off of the broadcast airwaves, although I understand you're continuing it on the Web. So I became the funny-record guy, though that was not my original intent. And so, the more I played of that kind of thing, the more popular the show got. Demento Show" started in 1970 as kind of a rare rock and roll oldies show, I found that most of my requests were for those funny things, "The Purple People Eater" and so on, and "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvus. A little politically incorrect, though not maybe as much, though, as "Slap Her Down Again, Pa," another Arthur Godfrey hit of the 1940s. So that was the first funny music I heard, that along with "Too Fat Polka" by Arthur Godfrey that some may remember. It actually started when I was four years old and my dad brought home a copy of "Cocktails for Two" by Spike Jones, which was then a new release. And you got excited about that kind of music when you were a young man? Also, it's a kind of music that's been around as long as there's been recorded music, anyway. I don't know if you'd call it novelty songs. INSKEEP: And you're trolling in this brand of music. So you won't you go and buy a half a gallon, baby? I love rocky road. WEIRD AL YANKOVIC (Singer, Songwriter): (Singing) Baby, I love rocky road. INSKEEP: He ended up being an architect of a different kind. HANSEN: That was his - that's what he wanted to do originally.
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Demento Show," the probability is high that Alfred Yankovic would still be a professional architect today. He sent me a homemade cassette tape when he was 16 years old, and I played it on my show. INSKEEP: What do you mean by calling Weird Al Yankovic a protege? I've introduced a lot of people to Frank's music. It's also Spike Jones, Monty Python, some of the giants of the not-too-long-ago, including Stan Freberg and Allan Sherman, Tom Lehrer - two out of those three still very much alive - and, oh, Frank Zappa, of course. It's the music of Weird Al Yankovic, my most famous protege.
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Demento Show"): Well, in a phrase, I call it mad music and crazy comedy. BARRET HANSEN (Radio Personality and Programmer, "The Dr. INSKEEP: What kind of music is it that you have brought to the public's attention all these years? Unidentified Group: (Singing) Fish heads, fish heads, roly-poly fish heads. For 40 years, he made the radio a slightly weirder place. He is still heard on Internet radio, but his broadcast cancellation marks a milestone.
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Demento's famous radio program went off the air this month. His name is Barret Hansen, though you may know him better by his nom de guerre: Dr. We've been talking with a man who gets some of the credit for bringing you songs like this. ELMO (Singer, Songwriter): (Singing) Grandma got run over by a reindeer. (Soundbite of song, "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer")ĭr.
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